Food Theory: Chuck E Cheese Pizza, Should You Be Scared?

Chuck E. Cheese pizza is a modern age folktale all on its own. From the infamous docuseries, to all of the other theories spread across YouTube and the internet at large, we ALL know what this theory is going to be about. Is Chuck E Cheese pizza recycled? Do the employees use uneaten pizza slices from previous patrons to build "new" pizzas that they then serve to other customers? Food Theorists, our team is out to prove whether that is true or just a piece of hot, cheese fiction!

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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Luke Barats
Editors: Tyler Mascola and Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick
Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

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[tacomannou]

The workers to the pizza:
“I will put you back together”

[SailingCircle]

YouTuber: Potentially destroyed a company


Matpat: I’m about to save this company’s career

[michaelzhang]

Man there are a lot of Chuck-E-Cheese references in this FNaF theory.

[fluidloki]

You can’t scare matpat with robots, you can scare him with OSHA violations.😂😂

[JAEboy]

Hey MatPat, just something to help confirm your theory, I was a Chuck E Cheese employee from a few months before the "Recycled Pizza Theory" to a few months after. I was one of the few people in charge of making/cutting and even serving the pizza. I can confirm that we did NOT recycle the pizza. The blade being the cause of the jankeyness of the pizza is true, besides none of us were pro pizza makers so it was gonna look kinda crappy. The reason some of the pizza from the Delivery was cut better is because we did have a circular pizza cutter as well but we were only able to use it for delivery so it "looked better". We mainly just used the rocking blade because we were really busy and needed to get the pizza out Fast. Also, im going to tell on myself a little bit... I did try to bring pizza to the back, however it was not to recycle it but because I had recently become homeless and could not afford to buy food so I would sneak food out as much as I could and if it came from other peoples uneaten slices, it did not matter to me. Anyway, you are 100% correct.

[themadhatter]

As an actual employee of Chuck e cheese, you got pretty much everything right. I've seen hundreds of pizzas made and all the janky edges just come from the way we cut and plate them. Also, if you ever do see an employee take leftover pizza to the kitchen area, it almost always means that the thank you boxes need to be emptied and they're going to dump the leftovers in one of our larger trash cans in the back. If you ever have more questions Matt, feel free to ask me.

[Pinanimate]

Never thought I’d see MatPat defend a pizza restaurant instead of talk about the dead children inside it.

[niallshorn]

I went to a Chuck E Cheese once in my life for a friends birthday. I saw the mascot with its arms out trying to give me a hug and went screaming up the slide. Only to turn around and see the giant Chuck E Cheese mascot head looking at me up the slide. I’ve never liked mascots but I think that’s was the traumatizing moment that really nailed it in😂

[TheWaterlooWatermelon]

Food Theory: Scary Chuck E. Cheese
Film Theory: Scary Ratitoule

Mat? Did you recently have a traumatic encounter with a spooky chef rat?

[mitkru]

Former Chuck E Cheese "Cast Member" here. My manager was the cheapest of them all. If I dropped a pepperoni on the floor, he would take it out of my paycheck, and I was only 16. With that being said, every pizza I made was a new pizza. Each one went through the oven on a pizza liner, was then placed onto a cutting board, and cut by the slicer the employee mentioned in the video (almost every pizza place uses this blade). After it's cut, a metal paddle is precariously placed under the cut pizza, and then the pizza is "jooshed" into a tray with many little nibs that allow air to flow under the crust for cooling. However, they also jostle the pizza slices upon entry, making each piece look uneven and displaced. I had a 14-year old co-worker who used a glove and inserted each piece by hand because the manager would chew him out for poor "presentation." Dancing in the rat suit was therapeutic compared to working that kitchen.

[charliecharlie]

Imagine you’re doing your job, unloading boxes from your truck when some nerd with a camera appears on the second floor of a building saying “Innocent construction project? or building a sister location under Chuck E. Cheese? Hmmm.”

[ToneTone]

I LOVED how Matt refers to him as "He who shall not be named"

[Tekstar]

"There can't be left-overs if there is no customers"
Genius.

[oop]

“Something smells wrong here, and I’m not talking about the dead bodies stuffed in the animatronics...”
*hol up*

[jolo]

I feel bad for Chuck E Cheese for getting all this heat while being innocent, but they should’ve just explained the pizza cutter thing instead of saying their dough is fresh

[Matt-hyqj]

Funnily enough having a dull blade is not safe. Having to use that much force to slice a pizza means a much greater risk of it slipping and something going very VERY wrong

[starfallentertainment]

“Just assume I was stuffed inside an animatronic suit”

Matrap confirmed

[BlnkYT]

Film Theorists: Ruins Childhood

Food Theorists: Defends Childhood

[kellynine]

Seriously, if they were actually recycling leftover pizzas, we would know. Every other former employee would be coming out of the woodwork about it.

[kyojurorengoku]

*Mat: terrified by the emptiness of the Chucky Cheese restaurant* 👀

*Amy: (Dances in 6ft apart)* 💃🏻